Superchunk-Wild Loneliness-CD-FLAC-2022-FORSAKEN

                     FORSAKEN Proudly Presents              
    Artist      : Superchunk                                        
   Album       : Wild Loneliness                                   
    Label       : Merge Records                                      
    Genre       : Rock                                               
    Source      : CD                                                 
    Street Date : 2022-02-25                                         
   Quality     : 982 kbps / 44.1kHz / 2 channels                   
    Encoder     : FLAC 1.3.1                                        
     Size        : 285.59 MB                                          
     Time        : 38:32 min                                          
    Url         : http://allmusic.com/album/release/wild-loneliness 
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  1.  City Of The Dead                                               4:24 
  2.  Endless Summer                                                 4:14 
  3.  On The Floor                                                   3:38 
  4.  Highly Suspect                                                 4:38 
  5.  Set It Aside                                                   2:20 
  6.  This Night                                                     4:35 
  7.  Wild Loneliness                                                3:03 
  8.  Refracting                                                     2:51 
  9.  Connection                                                     4:39 
  10. If You're Not Dark                                             4:10 
     Superchunk's distinctively high-strung fuzz pop leaned into        
     dissonance, speed, and righteous anger on their agitated, punky    
     2018 album What a Time to Be Alive. Twelfth studio album Wild      
     Loneliness reverses course, exploring a wider range of             
     instrumentation, textures, and songwriting choices without losing  
     any of the power the band exhibits in their more explosive         
     moments. Their signature melodic sensibility is still instantly    
     recognizable, but instead of overdriven guitars doing the heavy    
     lifting, acoustic guitars high in the mix are the driving force    
     behind most of the songs. Soft piano flourishes ornament songs     
     like "On the Floor," understated horn sections support the pushy   
     rhythms of "Highly Suspect," and an all-out sax solo shows up in   
     an instrumental break in the title track. Similarly subtle string  
     arrangements appear on album-opener "City of the Dead" and "This   
     Night," adding touches of sophistication and depth. Wild           
     Loneliness is a canvas for this kind of approach. The chorus of    
     "Endless Summer" features triumphant, restrained vocal harmonies   
     from members of Teenage Fanclub, and closing track "If You're Not  
     Dark" begins with a patient synthesizer drone that opens up into   
     fingerpicked acoustic guitars and builds into a steady,            
     thoughtful anthem. It's not all soft and introspective fare,       
     though, as the band still clunks and pogos their way through the   
     distorted "Refracting." Wild Loneliness is hardly the first time   
     Superchunk has showed another side of their sound, though.         
     Throughout their 30-plus-year run, the band's discography has      
     periodically strayed from the jittery pop of their earliest songs  
     to experiment with toned-down arrangements. The general upbeat     
     tempos, the inclusion of at least one overtly aggressive rager,    
     and the fact that most of the material would work just fine        
     arranged as meat-and-potatoes rock songs all suggest that the      
     more refined delivery is part of a larger statement. Lyrical nods  
     to repeating cycles and changing as time goes on also play into a  
     sense of maturation that's reflected in the album's graceful       
     sonics. Wild Loneliness shows Superchunk still evolving and        
     reaching for new expressions, even decades into a                  
     well-established style. The result of this envelope-pushing is     
     one of their most nuanced and emotionally engaging albums in       
     years, arriving at a different kind of immediacy than can be       
     achieved with loud guitars and angsty hooks.                       

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